Dr. Dikaia Chatziefstathiou is Director of the Sport, Human Rights and Safeguarding Research Group that is committed to conducting high quality, values-led research to improve health, wellbeing, and welfare for those working and participating in sport. She is Reader in Olympic Studies & the Social Analysis of Sport and Director of Research Environment in the School of Psychology and Life Sciences in Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. She is the author of the book Discourses of Olympism: From the Sorbonne 1894 to London 2012 published by Palgrave (2012; co-authored with Professor Ian Henry) and the Editor-in-Chief of the Routledge Handbook of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (2020). She has edited several books in relation to Olympic Studies, e.g., on Olympism, Olympic values and Olympic Education. She has also written the storytelling book Imagine my Stories for Peace containing five stories for inspiring young people to embody the Olympic values in their lives (2016; published by the International Olympic Truce Centre). In her more recent work, she is unpacking some of the diverse issues of abuse and harassment in sport. She is the winner of the inaugural Coubertin Prize 2008 awarded by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Pierre de Coubertin Committee (IPCC) for her qualitative research on Pierre de Coubertin’s writings and speeches

Dr Suzanne Everley is Head of Sport Social Science and a Reader in the Sociology of Physical Education, Activity and Health at the University of Chichester. Her research of over 20 years focuses on understanding the experiences of children and young people. Suzanne has published in academic papers and texts and has written a book on the use of creative arts-based research methodologies. She has conducted investigations for the Youth Sport Trust, the NSPCC’s Child Protection in Sport Unit and the FA. Following recommendations of Clive Sheldon’s Independent Review into Child Sexual Abuse in Football 1970-2005,  she is currently lead researcher on a project seeking to understand how children’s voices are heard in the sport and where this might be improved to create more child centred cultures, preventing abuse.